7+ hour, 46+ min ago   (192+ words) Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the company’s employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology. Top…...

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12+ hour, 59+ min ago   (162+ words) Three of the world's top artificial intelligence companies' CEOs announced Saturday that they believe the industry needs to slow down. On Saturday, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backed a call to…...

14+ hour, 15+ min ago   (176+ words) When it was reported last month that Anthropic’s Claude had resorted to blackmail and other self-preservation techniques to avoid being shut down, alarm bells went off in the AI community. Anthropic researchers say that making the models misbehave (“misalignment” in…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (771+ words) You don’t need to know any math to understand why the Millennium Prize breakthrough matters. It’s proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress. Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (266+ words) Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. The new report outlines five real-life case studies in which users “circumvented controls” that block users…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (845+ words) “Climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” — Greta Thunberg, 2018 “100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years.” — Paul Ehrlich, 1970 “No other human activity poses this…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (402+ words) The complaint cites The Seattle Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes as evidence that the material can surface in AI-generated responses. The newspapers say ChatGPT reproduced 88 consecutive words from one article after receiving its headline and URL....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (255+ words) PALO ALTO, CA — As tech giants continue to bicker back and forth about the dangers of A.I. becoming powerful enough to kill all humanity, Silicon Valley CEO Raymond Paul reported experiencing a divine vision in which a voice, which he…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (283+ words) A good prompt forces you to define the task in a way a computer can execute. Humans fill in gaps automatically, but an AI can’t rely on shared assumptions, tone, or context unless you explicitly provide them. That’s why two…...